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Teach levels of formality with clarity and confidence using this comprehensive 33-slide lesson, designed to explicitly guide students through understanding, identifying, and applying language choices across contexts.

These teacher slides can be used independently. Note: Where the teacher slides reference printable independent activities, these are available in the full lesson bundle available here.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, this slide deck supports a gradual release of responsibility, ensuring students move from guided understanding to independent application. Students explore how language shifts between slang, colloquial, conversational, and formal registers, and how these choices impact tone, audience, and purpose.

Through clear explanations, modelled examples, and structured opportunities for discussion, students learn how to deliberately select language that is appropriate, effective, and purposeful.

What's included in this teacher resource?

• 33 Interactive Teacher Slides unpacking Levels of Formality
• Clear learning intention and success criteria to frame the lesson
• Explicit definitions of slang, colloquial, conversational, and formal language
• High-quality modelled examples comparing levels of formality
• Think-alouds demonstrating how and why language choices change
• Guided practice slides to identify and categorise levels of formality
• Interactive tasks where students compare, sort, and justify language choices
• Scaffolded opportunities to rewrite phrases and short texts across different levels of formality
• Discussion prompts focused on audience, purpose, and context
• Check-ins for understanding embedded throughout the lesson
  

This resource supports students to move beyond recognising formal and informal language, developing the skills to intentionally adjust their communication for different audiences and purposes. Ideal for upper primary classrooms, it offers a structured, engaging, and practical approach to building confident, adaptable communicators.

Format: PowerPoint Slides

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase (AC9E6LA03)

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